Recent content by freefrog

TBH, model names like "lil xxx" appear to me as misleading. The comb filtering effect is so different with a SC sized humbucker... and they have fiber baseplates instead of NS ones... and/or narrow ceramic bars instead of full sized AlNiCo ones... Etc. Designers compensate the difference of...

+1 on Lace Alumitones. I don't like 'em much but they are surely something else... And among those that I like, I'd name Bill Lawrence as well. BTW, Fernandes Sustainer is a single coil: the second bobbin is empty (I've one of these in a Fernandes Revolver, FWIW). DeArmond "foil" models were...

I've much consideration for John Suhr... but I don't think Bill Lawrence was wronger than him when he described cables as "tubular capacitors" in his interview from 2005 (also displayed on Youtube)... :) Incidentally, dozens of lab tests have been done here on such questions (and I've the...

What you say about "Spread capacitance" is a possible reason why PRS didn't use a mere cap for the "sweet switch" of Santana models, but a delay line (equivalent to an array of caps to ground with small inductors in series in between): absolutely speaking, a cable is not "simply adding extra...

Kudos for the impressive work, thanks a lot for sharing and... +1 to most of the sentences above, whose content "resonate" with many of my posts here. I'd just add that it's not required to change the length of cable for subtly sweeter tones: as this effect is mainly due to the parasitic...

As a matter of fact, 24 9/16 is the scale of my Flying V or LP std while my Epi Wilshire measures 24.75. And location of pickups makes sense relatively to the scale used... That said, the guitar with the shortest scale in my stable is a 24' Fender and doesn't sound (acoustically) fatter than my...

FWIW and TBH, MIK Epi LP's as I know them were well made and reliable instruments but not designed / built to sound like "real" LP's. When a luthier and I did "dissect" one of these, we discovered a kind of multiwood sandwich under the finish, explaining why its acoustic resonance evoked a...

Incidentally, with all due respect and just because I'm an old fart liking to ramble : even a magnet moved on one side wouldn't necessarily be a problem... there's not much room in a covered humbucker for that. For instance, when pushed to the edge of a standard baseplate and ready to stick...

You don't have to send it back and I'm glad to see your issue solved.... and yes, you have a gorgeous guitar! I had an Artist in polar white more than 4 decades ago. But no, too much distance is not necessarily a problem in such cases IME. A pro that I know was used to play with a JB set WAY...

Nobody has said nowhere above that tonal differences were coming from butyrate. I've treated separately in my post 14 what I perceived as two different questions. :-) That said, my experience agrees with what Rex Rocker says in his point 2: I've already dealt with vintage butyrate bobbins...

1-Mines sound more "creamy". They host A5 (as confirmed by magnetic / LRC measurements with lab meters) but with something of A2, mostly due IMHO to the kind of rough cast magnets used. Please keep in mind that I'm not describing old ones as "better" or "more authentic". Nor am I talking about...

Reminds me a topic about rails pickups, a few weeks ago, where the idea of inconsistent volume between magnetic poles of traditional humbuckers had been brutally denied... :-P Yes, strings do strange things sometimes. But no, IME, it's not impossible for a pickup to have this problem, albeit...

I don't know for this Limited Edition but my real early 59's don't sound like more recent ones.

Still too tired to dig in my archives but Manfred Zollner's has shared in his PhD thesis a few interesting and accessible things. Excerpts: Etc. For those having not at disposal the lab gear used by Zollner, an instructive experiment would be to watch the harmonics captured by a bridge pickup...

The magnetic field of a rod magnet is more powerful and more focused, hence the Stratitis effect. That said, the wide magnetic field of a triple ceramic HB is not necessarily innocent. I think to have data about that somewhere but TBH, I'm way too tired now to dig in my archives - and to be sure...